Summary
Date Posted: Monday, November 18, 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The Ministry of Education and Sports (MES) acquired funding under MoES-Irish Aid-UNICEF Programme to recruit a Gender Technical Advisor under the Gender Unit in the Department of Basic Education. The objective of the Gender unit is to provide expert support to the Ministry of Education and Sports on all matters related to gender responsive Education Planning and Management. The unit is funded by UNICEF under the MoES-Irish AldUNICEF programme. The Ministry of Education and Sports therefore invites applications from suitably qualified applicants to fill the position of Gender Technical Advisor that exist under the Gender unit:
Post title: Gender Technical Advisor (01 Vacancy)
Reports to: Director Basic and Secondary Education
Duration: 12 months Location: Country: MOES Headquarters, Uganda
Job purpose:
To provide expert support to the Ministry of Education and Sports on all matters related to gender responsive Education Planning and Management. .

Key responsibilities and duties:
• Provide technical support to MOES in planning, budgeting and implementation of gender policies and programmes.
• Provide technical support to MOES in the design, Implementation and monitoring of Gender responsive policies and programmes, with particular emphasis on Gender Equality. Elimination of Violence Against Children in Schools and Girls Education initiatives.
• Provide technical support for the review and integration of Gender and Equity issues into the Education Sector Strategic Plan and departmental plans and strengthen the functionality of the Gender Technical working group and the Inter-Ministerial Committee on VACIS to ensure effective coordination of Gender, Equity and VACIS programmes
• Provide technical support to ensure that annual budget and work plans are gender responsive.
• Provide technical support for the implementation of the National Multi-Sectoral Coordination Framework for the Adolescent Girl working with cross sectoral ministries, development partners and NGOs to advance integrated gender and adolescent programming.
• Support the concerned offices to ensure that gender sensitive indicators and performance benchmarks are included into EMIS and other data collection tools and routinely monitored, analyzed, utilized and reported during sector reviews.
• Provide Leadership for the enhancement of capacity of Ministry of Education staff on gender and equity programming.
• Provide technical inputs to MOES to effectively participate in national and international frameworks regarding policies, strategies, programs and develop action plans to ensure that the gender perspective is mainstrearned.
• Assist the MOES in lobbying and mobilization of resources for gender mainstreaming activities
• Assist with the development of guidelines for operationalizing the education Gender Policy
• Ensure timely and quality implementation of sonder related activities supported by Irish-Aid/UNICEF.
• Manage the Gender Unit, including providing supervision to the Gender Unit team.
• Any other duties assigned by the supervisor,

Job Skills: Not Specified

Required skills and experiences
• At least a master's degree in Gender studies, or related social sciences.
• At least 10 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in providing advisory services on gender-related issues, hands-on experience in design, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes.
Competences:
• Managerial skills
• Communication skills
• Leadership skills
• Team work

Job Education Requirements: Master’s Degree
Job Experience Requirements: 10 years

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Job application procedure
Interested candidates should submit their letter applications accompanied with CVs, copies of their academic certificates and all documents related to their working experience to the Permanent Secretary. Ministry of Education and Sports and hand delivered to the Ministry's Security Registry, 4 floor, Room 1 Embassy House, Kampala, no later than Friday, 29th November, 2019.
NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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